Notices by Soatok Dreamseeker (soatok@furry.engineer)

Just remember: as annoying as some fedi users are, so many people are worse.

No matter how vague or oddly specific a security concern is, if it's real, there exists some infosec nerd that hyperfixated on it years ago far past the point of expertise.

There's also roughly a 30% chance this nerd is trans, and another 30% chance this nerd is a furry, and a 25% chance they're both.

@gsuberland Well, I did say "hyperfixate" :p

lmao the e621 april fools day joke is great

Starting to wonder if having empathy is career-limiting beyond a certain level.

I'm extremely turned off by the "wine and dine" type of socializing. I'm not much of an alcohol enjoyer, and I'd rather eat simple meals than anything fancy.

And when you look at the cost attached to these sorts of outings, you could feed a lot of people for the same amount of money. And I'd rather do that instead.

This is why I don't get invited to the important business events haha

I went through 169 published blog posts and 30 pages to correct the URL for one of my sticker artists because they moved to a new carrd.co URL.

Attempting to MySQL REPLACE() my way to success did not work, presumably because of Automattic's Jetpack fucking with things.

I did not fix all the broken Twitter embeds caused by people jettisoning that website. I'm not sure I'll have the energy to, ever.

I want to reimagine the levels of hell from Dante's Inferno as the OSI model.

In light of recent events, I want to remind everyone that end-to-end encryption doesn't prevent you from adding the editor of the Atlantic to your private group chats.

From a conversation earlier, this meme was inspired.

(Sticker used in edit from lynxvsjackalope on Twitter)

Newsweek: "Multiple Teslas set on fire in Germany"

Me, who survived hurricanes in Florida where Teslas spontaneously combusted: "Are you sure they didn't just... do that? They tend to just do that."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250314110232/https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-vehicles-set-fire-berlin-germany-elon-musk-2044692

Why was 90's era chatroom romance incompatible with polyamory?

Because the expression for love was <3

@lina @kopper @cafou @jessew @puppygirlhornypost2 I feel like this thread is going to end with a remix of "do none of you own a fucking kettle?"

EDIT (for context)

Anyone else want to @ me with stupid bullshit?

I've got the fucking block button ready.

Marketing idea:

Instead of calling olive oil "extra virgin" it is now "incel olive oil"

Really surprised there isn't a good furry blog post about Tail Recursion yet

I guess it's time to add more furry art to my latest blog post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105421

Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal

Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn't actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram's cryptography to be actually secure, the CEO started spreading misleading bullshit about Signal®. Since then, I've been flooded with people asking me about various other encrypted messaging apps…

http://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/

WordPress 6.8 is due to switch their password hashing to bcrypt, and their application passwords to BLAKE2b.

Great news:

They disarmed the 72 char footgun with bcrypt in the way I recommended (HMAC, rather than just SHA2, to prevent hash shucking, and base64 to prevent NUL truncation).

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/59828

Letting me have image editing software was a mistake

I just had the dumbest shitpost idea of the year. It might be peak slacktivism.

• Compile a list of all the companies you never shop with.
• Compile a list of companies that have rolled back their DEI programs.
• For companies that are in both lists, email them insisting that you're boycotting them because of their embrace of racist, homophobic, etc. policies.
• Even if nobody changes their shopping behavior, they'll still waste time and resources trying to measure the impact of this policy change, which is a net-negative for their business.

(But also, maybe actually boycott the ones that you can.)